Re: Tribunal Case : Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:35 pm  

Does anyone have any information about the tribunal case? Are the parties still talking or have they reached the point where the employment tribunal in January is inevitable? For me and I suspect for many others this is the reason why I am not at this stage renewing my season tickets just in case the finding goes against us and the club goes t*ts up again

Re: Tribunal Case : Sat Oct 28, 2017 9:55 pm  

Think it was heading for mediation by a judge. But who knows.

Re: Tribunal Case : Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:14 pm  

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15710703.Former_Bulls_players_and_staff_reach_settlement/ Well one of the parties has settled! And the Tribunal for the others will start on January 23rd.

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15710703.Former_Bulls_players_and_staff_reach_settlement/ Well one of the parties has settled! And the Tribunal for the others will start on January 23rd.

[Bullseye]

Re: Tribunal Case : Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:36 pm  

Got my hopes up then and thought I could safely buy a season ticket!

Re: Tribunal Case : Sat Dec 09, 2017 2:31 pm  

HamsterChops wrote: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15710703.Former_Bulls_players_and_staff_reach_settlement/ Well one of the parties has settled! And the Tribunal for the others will start on January 23rd. I wonder how they settled? They were liquidated, with no cash. But Petit would have had knowledge of the other parties & negotiations. And a paper trail. And knowledge has it's own value, of course.

HamsterChops wrote: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15710703.Former_Bulls_players_and_staff_reach_settlement/ Well one of the parties has settled! And the Tribunal for the others will start on January 23rd. I wonder how they settled? They were liquidated, with no cash. But Petit would have had knowledge of the other parties & negotiations. And a paper trail. And knowledge has it's own value, of course.

[Bulliac]

Re: Tribunal Case : Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:08 am  

I guess Pettit could have provided his 'knowledge' of the other parties, subject to legalities, of course.

I hope it's the RFL who have most to worry about rather than us. To be fair, if the RFL obeyed all the rules and financial regulations when the newco was set up then, logically, there really should be nothing for us to worry about. It's the letters F,L and R (not necessarily in that order) that |I worry about when I consider screw-ups and people acting beyond their competence.

Re: Tribunal Case : Sun Dec 10, 2017 11:32 am  

Considering the sheer amount of lies the owners have told the fans over the last year, would it really surprise anyone if it ended up that they had acted in a dodgy fashion to get control of the club in the first place?

I'm fully expecting the current club to be hit with a bill for damages come the end of January.

Re: Tribunal Case : Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:14 am  

There's plenty for us to worry about for the reason that win, lose or draw, we will have ended up spending a huge stack of cash we don't have on the legals of dealing with the claims. I dread to think how much will have been clocked up. Unless RFL pick up the tab, it is hugely bad news for us.

I also wouldn't think it would be that great for team morale and player relations if those players who are still with us that are claiming against us end up getting loved in the case, so a bit of a lose-lose situation.

[Bullseye]

Re: Tribunal Case : Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:31 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

There's plenty for us to worry about for the reason that win, lose or draw, we will have ended up spending a huge stack of cash we don't have on the legals of dealing with the claims. I dread to think how much will have been clocked up. Unless RFL pick up the tab, it is hugely bad news for us.

I also wouldn't think it would be that great for team morale and player relations if those players who are still with us that are claiming against us end up getting loved in the case, so a bit of a lose-lose situation.

Surely the motivation for bringing the case is to get money that is thought to be owed?

If that’s right then why would anyone sue a club with no money? If some of the claimants are still Bulls players or employees it seems a counterproductive thing to do since their success in the claim would also mean they’d most likely be out of a job.

I think the real target has to be the RFL. They’re the ones with the money and they had a prominent role in the sorry saga.

The legal fees is another matter. Maybe we’re paying toward that, I don’t know but surely the RFL would want us to be singing from the same hymn sheet as them and will have therefore engaged the lawyers since they have the most to lose?

…or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

[Bulliac]

Re: Tribunal Case : Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:29 pm  

I've said before that, in my opinion, the RFL 'engineered' the takeover anyway - at least that's how it appeared from the outside. The RFL have acted as though they feel they have something worry about when they tried to strike out some of the clauses. Lock them up!